Fontana: SS Green Light Racing news 2009-02-27

Mooresville, NC -- Friday, February 27, 2009 -- While NASCAR's
two other top touring series are in Las Vegas, the NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series is off this week. The teams are all hard at work preparing
their trucks for the American Commercial...

Mooresville, NC -- Friday, February 27, 2009 -- While NASCAR's
two other top touring series are in Las Vegas, the NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series is off this week. The teams are all hard at work preparing
their trucks for the American Commercial Lines 200 which will be held
March 7th at the Atlanta Motor Speedway.

In one small race-shop outside of Mooresville, NC there is a different
vibe this week. There is a buzz, a confidence, euphoria, and a breath of
fresh air. Things are different this year in the SS Green Light Racing
shop. Over the last eight years the team has over 400 NCWTS starts
running two trucks many weeks with only two top-five finishes; a fourth
in 2002 by Bobby Dotter and a fifth by Wisconsin short-track ace Rich
Bickle in 2005. Both top-fives came at half-mile short tracks.

Following the conclusion of the 2008 season, owners Ken Smith and Bobby
Dotter made the decision to re-engineer the team; to run competitive and
into the spotlight where they could attract additional sponsorship and
top-name drivers. Rather than running two full time trucks, they
formulated a plan to run a partial schedule with one truck using the
available resources from supporters ASI Limited, Spectrum Metal Finishing
and Akzo Nobel to improve the on-track performance for those 12 races
rather than spreading the dollars over a full season. They hired new
team-members, changed engine suppliers and aligned themselves with
prominent teams within the Chevy camp to share information.

Just weeks before the season opener at Daytona they hired 24-year old
Chad McCumbee, who had planned to run 15 Cup races for Petty Enterprises
this season. Chad's plans had changed at the last minute due to
the merger of GEM Racing and the Petty team and Chad saw the potential in
the re-worked SS Green Light team.

While only two races into the young season McCumbee sits comfortably in
the top-ten in points following a very impressive third at Auto Club
Speedway last week. The best finish ever for the team in nine years of
truck racing. The finish was impressive, but what has the team more
excited was the fact they had one of the fastest trucks throughout the
entire race.

The dramatic turnaround has the entire organization abuzz with new
enthusiasm about the rest of the season but none more than Smith who is
working hard behind the scenes to garner additional support for the team.
"Claiming our best finish as a team in the 2nd race is very
gratifying for Bobby and myself but also for everyone on the team. Our
plan since the last day of the 2008 season was to improve our performance
on the track. We have committed to quality of events, not quantity due
to the fact that we have limited sponsorship. We have the driver and
team in place to continue these strong finishes and hopefully attract
additional sponsorship that will allow us participate for the whole
season."

Dotter, who sits atop the pit box each week and made a great call to save
tires early in the California race to help propel Chad to the third place
finish, is still excited. "It's really a great feeling to see
your truck running up front for much of the race. Being up front
wasn't all fresh tires either, we were running top five lap times
throughout the race." Dotter added, "I was joking with the
guys that it took us seven years to beat the fourth place I had back in
2002! I'm really proud of Chad and these guys who built this
Silverado over the off-season."

It's been a busy week for McCumbee too, as numerous media outlets
have been asking about the teams dramatic improvement. "I really
enjoyed joining Claire B. Lang after the race on her talk show on Sirius
radio," Said McCumbee. "It was great to have fans call in and
recognize what we have accomplished in a short period of time at SS Green
Light Racing this year."

Reinforcing Smith and Dotters master plan for 2009 is showing results.
During one post race interview McCumbee explained, "We were not
even planning to come to California this weekend, but we got some help
from The GPSstore.com and Garmin and that allowed us to make the trip out
here." He added, "I think that the support we are seeing
shows the plan is working already and if we can get a couple more strong
finishes we can find some additional help to run the whole season."